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Issues: health care

Sanders Misleads on Family Health Care Costs

Sanders Misleads on Family Health Care Costs
October 24, 2019

Sen. Bernie Sanders continues to make the misleading claim that “the average family of four spends $28,000 a year on health care.” That’s the projected average cost for employer-sponsored health insurance for “typical” families of that size, but the employer paid 56% of the total amount in 2018.

Is Right to Try Saving a ‘Lot of People’?

Is Right to Try Saving a ‘Lot of People’?
September 17, 2019

President Donald Trump last year signed a bill — the Right to Try Act — that provided another avenue for terminally ill patients to gain access to unapproved medications still in development. But there’s no evidence that the new law is saving “a lot of people,” as the president claims.

What Republicans Did on Mental Health, Guns

What Republicans Did on Mental Health, Guns
August 7, 2019

A social media post misleadingly claims that Republicans “voted to allow people with pre-existing mental illness to buy firearms.” The measure blocked the Social Security Administration from reporting to the U.S. background check system some disability beneficiaries who are unable to manage their finances. Federal law still prohibits people with certain conditions from buying guns.